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Habitat includes the banks of vegetated creeks, lakes, swamps, tidal estuaries and mangroves.Often difficult to see until it quickly darts from a perch above water.…

It is the highest and one of the busier resorts in the area, and underwent a large building programme in preparation for its hosting of the 2006 Winter Olympics.An old fort perched above the pass suggests the region's bloody past.This resort is well suited for beginners with many gentle slopes leading to a wide area by the bottom lifts.…

Passenger accommodation is located on two levels, the first housing forward and aft lounges with a kiosk area and toilets between, while the second level is open deck space from the twin funnels to just forward of the bridge.The bridge sits on its own perch above the open deck.Superficially there is very little to differentiate Argyle from Bute.…

This is a small rock shelter formed by a low overhanging rock perched above three supporting rocks.On the outer edge of the overhang are six sets of concentric circles in white, together with paintings in the shape of 'acacia pods'.…

This is one of the most curious villages of the island.It stands like an eagle's nest, perched above the sea on a black rock on the mountain side.Its houses, built level with the edge of the cliffs, formed in olden days a sufficient rampart against marauders.…Cited from Itinerary through Corsica, by Charles Bertram Black

The upper five floors rest on a two-story piano nobile crested by an ornamental string course.Carved eagles perch above the main entry doors at the north and south.The facade of the third through seventh floors is divided into ten bays of windows, with the first and tenth bays being above the north and south entries.…

While M and Claire kill off their followers, John confronts his life with new eyes.Soon, he is back to his perch above the city, possessing a dangerous new clarity.…

For two days he sat perched above the steep, quiet, immovable, his head sunk deep into his shoulders.Cited from Tales of the Wilderness, by Boris Pilniak (pseud.)

The place which had once been a narrow room, then a balcony, was now a perch above stomach-turning space.The hall of the oval mirrors was gone, having disappeared into a hollow the depths of which were veiled by a vapor which boiled and bubbled as if, far below, some huge caldron hung above a blazing fire.…Cited from Key Out of Time, by Andre Alice Norton

A chattering little marsh wren tilted on a bush and scolded.A blue jay perched above and tried to decide whether there was cause for an alarm signal.A snake coming from the water to hunt birds ran close to him, and changing its course, went weaving away among the mosses.…Cited from The Harvester, by Gene Stratton Porter

The women rushed into the long grass, and I was led, after a good deal of talk, up to the village -- only to see, at the other end, grass petticoats disappearing, the wearers hidden by the quantity of stuff they were carrying.One poor woman, heavily laden with treasures, had perched above all her child, and away she, too, was flying.Never had white man landed there before, and who knows what he may be up to?…Cited from Adventures in New Guinea, by James Chalmers

Maybe the house would look more reasonable, and maybe things would feel different if he were to climb up on the fence-post.So presently, when he was perched above the gate, he closed his eyes and began kicking his heels as he did when at home.This was another experiment; for every boy knows that you cannot hope to see any fairies or any fairy godmothers unless you take them by surprise.…Cited from A Melody in Silver, by Keene Abbott

Today they are mostly embassies and the area around the park is often called Ottawa's Embassy Row.Perched above the park is the Russian embassy, formerly that of the Soviet Union.…

This was why he could not walk on the flat of his foot.But his appearance was no more unusual than the manner of his coming, there to my mother and me as we perched above the angry wild pigs.He came through the trees, leaping from limb to limb and from tree to tree; and he came swiftly.…Cited from Before Adam, by Jack London

Then the great Eagle, whose head was white with years of wisdom and experience, spoke to the despairing assemblage of creatures.From his lofty perch above the world the Eagle had looked down upon centuries of change and decay.He knew every force of nature and all the strange things of life.…Cited from The Curious Book of Birds, by Abbie Farwell Brown

Fritz had stolen back to the edge of the thicket, but kept cowering so close that the elephant could not see him.The parties perched above were more than annoyed by their imprisonment thus procrastinated, and began to think of how they might set themselves free.They talked of making a rush to possess themselves of their guns; but to Karl this appeared too perilous to be attempted.…Cited from The Cliff Climbers, by Captain Mayne Reid

The former Court of his grandfather is already in ruins, the work of Bismarck crumbling in the dust; in less than no time he has reduced the old aristocratic and feudal Prussian monarchy to the purest kind of democratic Caesarism.Perched above every political party in Germany, William the Young wants to be the one and only ruler and judge of all.Among themselves let them differ as and when they will, it being always understood that all these separate opinions must equally be sacrificed to the Emperor.…Cited from The Schemes of the Kaiser, by Juliette Adam

It currently stands as an intact contributor to San Francisco's important collection of classically designed banking halls, as well as an expression of the ideals of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition of 1915.The building, with its row of free-standing eagles perched above the large entablature particularly expresses the federal presence.The building has an Ionic colonnade that is pure Beaux-Arts, while the upper levels are in the new Moderne fashion of 1924.…

As we drew near, Culhane suddenly called a halt and, lining us up as was his rule, called to the horses of the brewery wagon, who also obeyed his lusty "Whoa!"The driver, from his high perch above, stared down on us with mingled curiosity and wonder.…Cited from Twelve Men, by Theodore Dreiser

The sun had no mercy on her, and she fairly panted in the middle of the day.In such an emergency the male robin has been known to perch above the sitting female and shade her with his outstretched wings.But in this case there was no perch for the male bird, had he been disposed to make a sunshade of himself.…Cited from Birds and Bees, Sharp Eyes, Etc, by John Burroughs